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2026-04-12 11:48
MCP Scanner Comparison: Cisco vs Snyk vs Pipelock
MCP is the glue holding the 2026 agent stack together. That also makes it the best place for an attacker to hide. A malicious tool description, a rug-pulled update, a poisoned response, and the model obediently does whatever the attacker wrote. So people are building scanners for it, and you now have real choices.
There are three tools worth knowing about: Cisco's open-source mcp-scanner, Snyk's ...